Tachyonic Inflation in a Warped String Background
arXiv:hep-th/0406195 · doi:10.1088/1126-6708/2004/10/057
Abstract
We analyze observational constraints on the parameter space of tachyonic inflation with a Gaussian potential and discuss some predictions of this scenario. As was shown by Kofman and Linde, it is extremely problematic to achieve the required range of parameters in conventional string compactifications. We investigate if the situation can be improved in more general compactifications with a warped metric and varying dilaton. The simplest examples are the warped throat geometries that arise in the vicinity of of a large number of space-filling D-branes. We find that the parameter range for inflation can be accommodated in the background of D6-branes wrapping a three-cycle in type IIA. We comment on the requirements that have to be met in order to realize this scenario in an explicit string compactification.
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